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Samuel Willard was born in Concord, MA and educated at Harvard College.
He served as pastor of the frontier congregation at Groton, MA from
1663-1676, and as teacher to the Old South Church in Boston from
1676-1707. He was vice president of harvard in 1700 and president from 1701
until his death in 1707. Next to Cotton Mather, Willard was the most
prolific writer of his day. From 1688 until 1707 he delivered monthly
lectures on the "Shorter Catchism," which were published posthumously as A
Complete Body of Divinity in 1726. It was the first folio book published
in American, and was New England’s first and only systematic theology. |
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